Spontaneous haemothorax caused by costal exostosis

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 735-736

  Uchida, K ^a   Kurihara, Y ^b   Sekiguchi, S ^a   Doi, Y ^a   Matsuda, K ^a   Miyanaga, M ^a   Ikeda, Y ^a  

^a Inada Noborito Hospital   (Japan)

^b ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

computed tomography; haemothorax; hereditary multiple exostosis; pleural thickening

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAPHRAGM; EXOSTOSIS; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; MALE; PLEURA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIB;

ADULT; EXOSTOSES, MULTIPLE HEREDITARY; HEMOTHORAX; HUMANS; MALE; PLEURA; RIBS; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS;

EID: 0031047227     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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